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The Powerball dream is by no means over for hopeful players.Source:Supplied
Eventually, the winning numbers for last night’s $80 million dollar jackpot prize were announced: 3, 10, 7, 28, 34, 24, 31 with a Powerball number of 14. Nov 08, 2015 Imagine winning $8.5 million on a slot machine, only to walk away with $80. That’s what happened to Veronica Castillo, who hit the $8.5 million jackpot at a Lucky Eagle Casino slot machine in.
It’s not over yet for Powerball players, with the prize jackpotting to a staggering $100 million next week.
Last night got off to a shaky start for the $80 million jackpot after lengthy delays due to a technical glitch with the draw led to an agonising wait for ticket holders.
Frustrated players took to social media to vent over the delay, which lasted around an hour.
Waiting on powerball numbers... @theLottpic.twitter.com/9APZDYfnzD
— Stacey Lambert (@staceylambert) January 10, 2019
How hard is it to roll some numbers out of a barrel !! Bring back chook lotto
— Paul Pickford (@PaulPickford) January 10, 2019POWERBALL FAIL: CAN'T THEY JUST DRAW SOME WOODEN BINGO BALLS OUT OF A SOCK? #Powerball#NoWonderTheCountrysInTheStateItsIn
— The NT News (@TheNTNews) January 10, 2019Not releasing the #Powerball numbers... that’s a paddlin’ pic.twitter.com/9bhYtWlxBM
— Tiny Wombat (@tinywombat) January 10, 2019The Lott spokesman Matt Hart told news.com.au the delay was due to the larger-than-usual volume of entrants this time around.
“We did have a delay to the draw of about an hour last night as we completed all the processes that need to occur before any draw,” he said.
“Under regulations, every single entry has to be validated in the system before the draw can take place. This is to ensure the integrity of the game and fairness to players.
“Due to the volume of entries, this process took a little longer than usual.”
He noted that while the processes themselves can’t be changed due to regulations, they will be looking at how to expedite them for large draws, including the $100 million jackpot next week.
Speaking on Today this morning, the Lott spokeswoman Bronwyn Spencer said one in three Australians had a ticket in the draw.
“It was a frenzy in the lead-up to the draw last night with one in three Australians expected to have an entry into the draw,” she said.
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“At one point, we were selling 2000 tickets per minute at the peak of the draw. This busyness is the reason for the delay in the draw as we had to validate each of these entries before the draw could occur.
“All of our draws are over seen by government regulators and once they were happy to proceed, we drew the numbers and released the results as soon as possible after the draw and we thank all of our players for their patience in waiting to see if they were $80 million richer.”
Eventually, the winning numbers for last night’s $80 million dollar jackpot prize were announced: 3, 10, 7, 28, 34, 24, 31 with a Powerball number of 14.
However, there were no division one winners, meaning the Powerball division one prize will hit the $100 million mark for the second time in less than six months.
In good news for Powerball punters, the game has now jackpotted for the eighth consecutive week and is the equal largest prize in the game’s 23-year history, Seven News reports.
If one single entry takes home the entire $100 million jackpot, it would be the biggest Australian lottery prize ever won by a single entry.
Despite there being no division one winners, a total of 2,467,864 prizes worth more than $44.1 million were won in divisions two to nine.
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Due to complications there has been a delay of the $80 million jackpot draw.
Stay tuned on Seven for the full draw. pic.twitter.com/3ZGfAEetyY
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The numbers were expected to be available online by 9pm last night and be televised about 9.30pm on Channel 7. But the Lott posted to its website about 10.45pm that it was still finalising the draw.
The post came almost two hours after results were due to be revealed. Organisers blamed the high number of entries, with the whopping prize money prompting millions of games to be entered late on Thursday.
The numbers were eventually announced during Channel 7 news, explaining the delay was caused by a technical glitch on Powerball’s end.
Last year saw 14 division one winning entries take home $344 million in Powerball prizes.
Of these entries, almost two-thirds were quick-pick entries, and almost one in four of the winning entries were PowerHIT entries.
Next week’s prize has soared to a staggering $100 million.Source:Supplied
LUCKIEST NUMBERS REVEALED
Ahead of last night’s $80 million draw, the Lott revealed the luckiest numbers.
For the main barrel, where seven winning numbers are drawn from 34, the ‘hot’ number is 32, having been drawn a total of 13 times. The second ‘hot’ number is 29, which was drawn 12 times.
For the ‘cold’ winning numbers, 1, 10, 11, 12, 21 and 27 made the most appearances, each being drawn four times.
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‘Hot’ Powerball numbers include 3, 13 and 19, again each drawn four times, and the ‘cold’ 1, 2, 4 and 18 for the ‘cold’, which weren’t drawn at all.